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Re:Macbook Pro Touch Bar runs watchOS by mstade on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:20AM (#12816797)
I'd say most of my time is spent in macOS, with perhaps a third of it spent in Windows. I don't really use F-keys in windows either. It seems these days the typical key mappings in Windows and macOS are essentially the same – Cmd+W closes a window on macOS, Ctrl+W does the same in windows. Perhaps the only time I use F-keys in windows is Alt+F4 to close an application, but even that just doesn't happen very often since closing the last window typically closes the application.

On macOS I use the keyboard for almost everything, but off hand I don't know a single key binding relying on F-keys. They're always Cmd[+Shift][+Alt]+Alphanum more or less.

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Re:Macbook Pro Touch Bar runs watchOS by dpark on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:54AM (#12817337)
> Ctrl+W does the same in windows

No, it doesn't. Ctrl+W isn't a general shortcut on Windows. A number of programs have adopted it to close windows/tabs (seems to have risen to prominence after browsers started binding it), but it's not a standard binding still. e.g. It does nothing in Outlook or Notepad.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keybo...

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Re:Macbook Pro Touch Bar runs watchOS by Someone on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:23PM (#12817676)
AFAIK, command-W is a Microsoft invention. They introduced it in Word, Excel and IE for the Mac, then copied it to Office for Windows. Apple adopted it in its UI guidelines.

The "Apple Human Interface Guidelines" (1987) surely doesn't mention it (it has undo/cut/copy/paste, new/open/save, cancel and help, and plain/bold/italic/underline)

"Windows User Experience" (1999) doesn't mention it, either.

"OS X Human Interface Guidelines" (2015) does mention it (aside: I find it good to see that the online version already has a section on the Touch Bar (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...). It also has a new name: macOS Human Interface Guidelines)

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Re:Macbook Pro Touch Bar runs watchOS by mstade on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:31PM (#12817756)
Oh, interesting – I learned something today, thanks! All applications I use support this, so I just assumed it was generally available.
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